At places that are preserved for their colonial historic values, historic preservation practices often do not take into account the intergenerational trauma to indigenous peoples caused by colonial impacts and the ongoing memorialization of colonial histories.
Through a series of case studies and using the concept of whakanoa as a Māori-specific interpretive lens, we invite the audience to consider how "unsympathetic" works by indigenous artists at colonial historic places can be particularly effective ways to reconnect these places with their precolonial histories and significance, engage in truth-telling about colonial impacts, and connect people to the past, present, and future. We argue this work should be supported and incorporated into how heritage practitioners consider significance, integrity, protection, and recognition.

This study reinterprets the ‘Sites of the Busan Wartime Capital’ through the lens of heterotopia. It examines the Busan sites that symbolize interdependency and resilience during the Korean War. More specifically, Busan is home to the world’s only official United Nations Cemetery, Tombstone Village, and Cattle Shed Refugee Village. These sites embody Foucault's concept of heterotopia, juxtaposing incompatible memories and spaces formed throughout continued crises.

The research explores the dynamics between community-engaged art and heritage through the local exhibition. Adopting multidimensional methodologies, it foregrounds multilayered connections between people/land, nature/culture, time/space, and living/dead, by featuring vernacular heritage-making from an indigenous approach.

Research findings highlight the integration of conflict heritage with civic engagement to foster ethical relationships and reconciliation. By reconceptualizing heterotopia through a "sensory ethnography of land," this study enhances our understanding of interconnectedness across cultures and time, thereby contributing to broader discussions on Authorized Heritage Discourse and critical heritage studies.

Drawing on the concept of ‘pacific’ heritage (Hammami et al. 2022; Harvey 2024), within this paper I explore how young people in Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Jordan and Syria are encountering, engaging and employing their heritages as a mode of everyday embodied peace. Walking with a team of 14 youth researchers, who have been conducting autoethnography and participatory peer-led workshops in conflict affected contexts, I illustrate how research praxis relating to heritage can be used to further peace-full practices in promoting agency and dignity, as well as contributing to understandings of peace through heritage. By engaging with the affective, relational and embodied dimensions of heritage, I therefore ask what peace and peacebuilding might look like if it were taken to be a process that begins and ends in the bodies that feel and are affected by it.

Exploring Liverpool's past role in race-making through medical education and heritage institutions, this work offers an opportunity to address current race/health inequalities with communities and institutions and imagine better Black (and other Global Majority) health futures within heritage spaces.

Researching and curating slavery’s legacies for Black health in the Liverpool city region, and beyond, we approach the city as an archive. The city's past is also an arc of injustice which can help heritage and education institutions to understand and tackle the current UK public health crisis of racism and racist violence, as well as the persistent systemic racial health inequities for Black communities. Drawing upon traditions of anti-racist, Black and Queer radical and liberatory research, archiving and heritage practice – we argue for a shift to racial trauma-informed and healing-centred reparatory research praxis.